In an early hours post on Wednesday, Tesla CEO said his criticism of President Donald Trump — which included an allegation that the president’s name was in unreleased files about convicted sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein — “went too far.

Billionaire Elon Musk has seemingly removed posts on X, formerly Twitter, that he wrote in which he claimed that President Donald Trump was named in the much-discussed files of Jeffrey Epstein, a move that significantly escalated a feud between the two former allies.

Although Elon Musk has been known to lean on "free speech" when convenient, the ex-DOGE boss appears to backpedaling after dropping a major bombshell.